Burt Lancaster
Mike Ribble
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Trapeze is a 1956 American circus film directed by Carol Reed and starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida. The film is based on Max Catto's 1950 novel The Killing Frost, with an adapted screenplay written by Liam O'Brien.
Trapeze: Directed by Carol Reed. With Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado. A crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less-gifted but beautiful Italian.
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- Drama, Romance
- Carol Reed
- 1956-05-30
A crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less-gifted but beautiful Italian. Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only the sixth to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident.
Mike Ribble (Burt Lancaster) is a hard-drinking tent pitcher. His career as a famous trapeze artist ended years ago after attempting a triple somersault gave him a permanent limp.
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- Burt Lancaster
- Carol Reed
- Drama
Trapeze (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Ribble And Orsini! Aspiring aerial star Tino Orsini (Tony Curtis) has tracked down retired legend Mike Ribble (Burt Lancaster), now a grouchy circus-tent rigger, in Paris, their first meeting in director Carol Reed's Trapeze, 1956.
- Carol Reed, Robert Gendre, Michael Romanoff
- Burt Lancaster
